Alexandra Kelly and her three children have all used the services of High Performance Learning. Now her children are all grown up, she has developed a keen interest in writing. She has published a book of poetry entitled Landscape of the Missing .
Alexandra joined the High Performance Learning Literature Club to develop and share her reading and writing skills. Below is a poem she wrote at a Literature Club meeting which captures the energy of some local school boys on their morning jog.
At the time of writing, Alexandra is working on a book of historical fiction. It is about the ship called the Coromandel which sailed between England and Adelaide in the mid-1800s.
St. John’s Joggers
by Alexandra Kelly
Morning
Beautiful spring sun
Like journeying bees
In dark blue, yellow
Dark blue, yellow
Stripes.
Across the railway bridge;
Jogging boys.
Young, lithe
Glow in the morning
Puzzling sunlight.
A troupe of buzzing
Bee-boys.
A-running, a-buzz.
Full of young life!
Alexandra Kelly
March 2012